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Principles of music: journey and return – a metaphor for life
One of the fundamental concepts underlying Western music is harmonic function. Within this system, chords fall into one of three...


What is improvisation in music?
Music can be understood as a language. The better one understands the principles and functional relationships of music...


Introduction to pitches, notes, and scales
Music is created from pitches, specific points on the spectrum of sound frequency which we measure in Hertz. Octaves are distances...


Introduction to beat and rhythm
Just as notes are related to one another in terms of pitch, the other main component of music, rhythm, concerns how notes occur in...
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